ATLANTA - Jurors will begin considering charges Thursday against an East Point woman accused in the death of her three-year-old granddaughter. <br>
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Judge Bensonetta Lane charged the jury today in the case against 45-year-old Beverly Headspeth. She is accused of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her granddaughter, Alexis. <br>
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Jurors will begin deliberating the case after lunch. <br>
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Headspeth is accused of failing to protect her granddaughter by leaving her in the care of her 11-year-old son, who prosecutors say killed Alexis. The girl's six-year-old sister testified on Tuesday that she saw the son put Alexis in the bathtub and hold her under water July 29th. <br>
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Alexis was taken to a hospital that night and pronounced dead August first. <br>
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Headspeth's boyfriend, Gregory Mena-Perez, also is on trial for child cruelty. <br>
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Her attorney argued yesterday that Headspeth did her best to care for the family. <br>
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But prosecutors contend she left the girl in the boy's care despite knowing Alexis could be in danger.
